SB2023092105 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Answer Retrieval for Watson Discovery

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SB2023092105 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Answer Retrieval for Watson Discovery

Published: September 21, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023092105
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 5
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

High 20% Medium 60% Low 20%
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
  • Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Uncaught Exception (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-41940)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform denial of service attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to an uncaught exception. A remote user can send specially crafted HTTP request to trigger an uncaught exception on the Engine.IO server, thus killing the Node.js process.


2) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3510)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the Policy (Google Protobuf-Java) component in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Policy. A remote non-authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


3) Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43548)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DNS rebinding attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of octal IP address within the Node.js rebinding protector for --inspec. A remote attacker can resolve the invalid octal address via DNS. When combined with an active --inspect session, such as when using VSCode, an attacker can perform DNS rebinding and execute arbitrary code in client's browser.


4) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2421)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.


5) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3509)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when parsing textformat data. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References